Rubella antibody was detected in 85 (61%) of 139 children aged from 6 months to 7 years with congenital perceptive deafness. Of the 112 children who were aged under 4 years 61 (54%) had rubella antibody (seropositive) compared with 7.1% in randomly selected children of the same age. A close correlation was found between the presence of antibody in children with perceptive deafness and (1) a mat...

This paper motivates, from historical, philosophical, and industrial points of view, the adoption of a novel scheme for developing complex measuring systems as perceptive agencies. The general concept of agency, a cooperative multiagent system defined within distributed artificial intelligence and robotics, is discussed together with its particular application to the field of intelligent instru...

Most theories of decision-making under uncertainty are based on the idea that individuals weight events by some (transformation of) subjective probabilities. Elicitation of these subjective probabilities has thus became a major concern for evaluating and applying these models. In order to do so, one needs: (i) to be sure that such subjective probabilities actually exist in individuals’ minds an...

BACKGROUND fine motor function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties. AIM this study aimed to characterize the fine motor, sensory and perceptive function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties and to correlate these results with the analysis of the children's handwriting. METHOD participants we...

Even though the perceived quality of a speaker’s natural voice does not necessarily guarantee the quality of synthesized speech, it is required to select a certain number of candidates based on their natural voice before moving to the evaluation stage of synthesized sentences. This paper describes a male speaker selection procedure for unit selection synthesis systems in English and Japanese ba...

The Problem: Increasingly, more and more people are living and working separated from their family and coworkers. As telecommuting starts to become the norm, and families separate across the country and the world, systems that bring people together in a spontaneous way will be needed. We envision these systems to co-exist with people in their current spaces. These devices work to convey presenc...

The present study will focus on the perception by the native speakers of elided high vowels in Japanese and of deleted sounds in spontaneous speech. Study of mother tongues perception of the said phenomenon may serve as a capstone toward the acceptance of elided vowels in Japanese. It is a common belief among scholars that vowel elision may interfere with words comprehension, for the missing vo...